This Heiress Doesn't Fight Anymore novel · Chapter 22 of 32

Chapter 22: Not Anymore

The shed went quiet around us.

The old shipwrights stopped fairing Wind Rose's cockpit.

Bess was halfway down her ladder and stopped there.

The old sailor had started coming every Sunday to glare at his boat.

He was on Gran's cooler by the steam box, and he put his coffee down.

Seth was at the other end of the bench.

He looked at Archer for a long moment.

Then he looked at me, and I gave him the smallest nod.

He took his truck keys off the nail by the door.

"Twenty minutes," he said, to nobody, and went out.

Archer didn't even notice him go.

"You heard me," he said. "Four point two."

"I heard you."

"Go back to work. Say sorry to your father, take your job back, your salary, your bonus."

He leaned closer and dropped his voice.

"Nobody has to know. You'd pay it in pieces. I'd never even have to say thank you."

I looked at him.

He didn't know how right he was.

In my last life I'd done exactly that.

Two years of payments, every one of them hidden, so he'd never be embarrassed.

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